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Tyrekinyl : 15/08/02 09:52 PM : Incident created -   Hey, I just built a new computer a couple days ago, and I decided to use linux! So I got everything put together, went to my friends house, downloaded and burnt Mandrake to a cd, brought it home, popped it in and it started up! I'm at the first 'hit f1 for options/hit enter to install or upgrade' screen, so I'm thinking all is good. I hit enter, the blue bar at the bottom starts filling up. It gets to about 90% completed and then it crashes, and sends me to a screen with a whole lot of errors, among them being: "Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 0006e000" and then, at the bottom of the page <0>Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! I also tried writing the cdrom.img to a floppy disk, and it comes up with the same errors. So either the image is corrupted or something else is wrong. Can anyone help?
Tyrekinyl : 15/08/02 10:34 PM : More info provided -   Edit: I tried the Mandrake cd on another computer and the setup ran just fine, so I'm guessing its a problem in the BIOS... any help would be great
Linegod_7611 : 16/08/02 12:13 AM : Reply received -   I'd put good money on it being a RAM problem, either via BIOS, or bad RAM itself. Try swapping out the RAM if possible, or changing the settings in the BIOS. ----- Note: If this answer resolves your problem, please remember to close this incident.
Tyrekinyl : 02/09/02 07:29 PM : Incident closed -

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